Operations were disrupted for a few hours at many restaurants worldwide.

The fast food giant ruled out the possibility of a cybersecurity incident, and further said the tech issue was being resolved.

Restaurants in countries including Japan, the UK, Canada and Australia faced outages.

The issue seemed to be have affected customers in Hong Kong and New Zealand as well.

McDonald's declined to comment on the number of stores impacted.

Many of its stores in Japan had stopped taking in-person and mobile customer orders due to system disruption.

A spokesperson at McDonald's Holdings Company Japan said recovery work was in progress.

It added operations were resuming at some stores.

McDonald's said the company's outlets in the UK and Ireland were fully back online after the outage.

Earlier this month, Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram also faced tech issues that hit global services for hundreds of thousands of users.